Lições de mariscar e itinerâncias de aprender: a extensão universitária construindo a formação

Abstract

Reflecting the training of undergraduate students in the perspective of overcoming the challenges that contemporary society presents, means thinking about a professional training committed to the processes of change. This work is configured as a qualitative research that intends to analyze the place of extension in university education, discussing higher education as an academic process that cannot be dissociated from its formative aspects, that is, from teaching, as well as in the generation of new scientific and technological knowledge effected by the research. From an Extension Project, Curricular Action in Community and Society, ACCS, developed at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Bahia, FACED/UFBA, in communities of artisanal fishing workers in the Recôncavo region of Bahia, it was possible to understand in its actions, the training of undergraduate students as a socio-educational action in the community and production of knowledge. From the perspective of the contributions of the “ecology of knowledge”, such experience provided an opportunity to create a political-pedagogical knowledge network between professors, students, university and community demands. Under this bias, it became possible to discuss university education and its meanings as processes of construction of learning in the dynamics of social life. It made it possible to reflect on the link between professional practice and reality in communities, as well as understanding the production of knowledge in the pluriversity dimension, destabilizing the hierarchical chain produced in universities in relation to knowledge, moving towards other/new knowledge. The conclusive aspects expand the discussion about university extension as a possibility capable of linking the university's social responsibility to the formation of its students, a more human and social formation.